Plans for flights to be restricted and hotel chains to be closed are underway as the UK plans for a devastating invasion of French bedbugs, reports say.
A popular UK hotel chain are quizzing guests upon arrival on whether they have been to France and deploying pest control units to cleanse rooms after their departure according to reports.
It is also understood that Air France, which runs six direct flights from Paris to London every day, is said to be ‘grounding’ any flights if bedbugs are discovered on them, The Mirror reported.
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The bedbugs, currently overrunning France, may have developed into "super-bedbugs" which are resistant to insecticides, with experts saying they're "harder to kill than ever before."
"Pest controllers have to return to kill them again because they survive the spray," pest control expert Nicolas Roux de Bezieux told the Mail on Sunday. With thousands of travellers from France arriving on trains, flights and ferries, fears are growing that the outbreak will quickly spread to the UK.
The outlet found that Millennium Hotels and Resorts, which operates 18 hotels in the UK, are asking new guests whether they have travelled from France, according to staff at one of its London hotels. "Every time we do the check-in we ask the guest 'are you travelling from Paris?'" a receptionist said.
"All the hotels which come under Millennium Group are doing this." A manager at the hotel added: "As soon as the guests leave, we put that particular room out of service and we just clean everything again."
According to reports Eurostar trains that run between London and Paris will undergo disinfection if there is the "slightest doubt" of infestation, while Transport for London bosses said they were "monitoring" the Tube network.
The aviation industry is carefully monitoring the situation as social media reported that bedbugs were found in Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport.
EasyJet, which operates more than ten direct flights between London and Paris each day, last night said: "Our aircraft are cleaned to a very high standard every night with key parts of the cabin being disinfected. We continue to actively monitor the situation in France."
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